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Topic: Nice write-up for my HalfShell (Read 2691 times)

I got a nice write-up for my HalfShell ahk hack. It's just a hotkey handler for Shift-Enter on 64 bit Vista and Windows Seven that opens selected folders in the 32 bit shell allowing some 32 bit shell extensions to work.

I recently updated it to empty its working set after each use to reduce the memory usage just sitting in the task tray. I also added a test that the selection is a folder before opening. Latest version is 1.7.1.0 and can be downloaded from my site using this link(scroll about half way down the page and you'll find HalfShell.)

The download on my site has the latest version. Softpedia will likely update overnight.

edit: this is interesting. All of a sudden google pops this up everywhere. It's on boards saying it's "time limited shareware price $0" other boards saying it's Removed(as close as I can figure they were pissed because a hotkey tray app has no screen shot when I never submitted my program to them in the first place.) Man the web is wild!!!

I'm not exactly sure what the issue is. The only information I have is that it "does nothing" when you hit the hotkey. I don't know if the 64 bit Windows in question even has the file%windir%\SysWow64\explorer.exe

From the reports I get, either it works perfectly on W7 retail 64 bit, or not at all. Must be build or update related. There must be some update that changes SysWow64\explorer.exe to launch the 64 bit explorer passing along the arguments.

It's one of those "you have to try it on your machine to find out" deals.